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Not too much to say about Inglorious Basterds. If you like Quentin Tarantino movies, then you'll like this one.
I liked that Brad Pitt was channeling his inner Warren Oates as the leader of the Basterds. I really like his character.
Bonus: a Nazi named General Frank.
Now, 2012 is what you want in a thriller!
Several times during the movie, which I watched at the movie theater, I found that I had been holding my breath and also grabbing my own leg.
Lots of crazy special effects and excellent John Cusak action. I really like him.
Go see it. They were saving all the animals like Noah's Ark, so I'm assuming there were chickens, although I didn't see them or hear them.
The President's first name is Thomas, so that's rare.
A Man Apart is not a real lame movie, but it definitely mediocre.
When Vin Diesel is your star and he's apart and he's also the narrator, you know what you're in for.
It's listed as a thriller, but it's not thrilling at all. For it to be a thriller, I have to notice that I've been holding my breath. I was breathing normally throughout the whole movie.
But since part of it takes place in Mexico, you know what that means! But no, in the Mexico scenes, they are mostly on airstrips and the bad parts of town.
But wait! The final scene is in a rural village in Columbia, where the bad guy is from... Vin slowly limps down the cobblestone streets past all the lookouts and then you hear some dogs barking and finally: Chickens! YAY! They are not that fun because they are just clucking around. It would have been better if Vin had zoomed down the street in a fast car or started blasting away with a machine gun and then the chickens would have been way fun. Oh well, you can't have everything.
I'm going to make this review short and sweet.
You don't need Denzel as a loser schlub in any movie. It was bad casting.
It's got flagrant Travolta cackling over the price of gold going way up. It is a lame ass movie.
So I say, stick with the original - Taking of the Pelham One Two Three (1974) with Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw and Martin Balsam. That is the real good movie.
The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke as an old broken down professional wrestler is a very interesting and very watchable movie.
Most of the wrestling scenes made me laugh because it brought back memories of when I was growing up watching wrestling every Saturday. Kenji Shibuya, Pat Patterson, Ray "Everyone is a pencil-neck" Stevens, Bearcat Wright, etc. They had the classic fake wrestling moves down pat.
Marisa Tomei is very sexy as a stripper that has sympathy for Randy the Ram.
Why is it that every movie or TV show I watch has hospital scenes lately? Did they always have them or am I just noticing them more lately because I was in the hospital for 4 days last month? It's very weird. I guess I'll have to make that something to watch for now in movies. A new category! I'm also adding Sports as a category.
Best line as Randy is on the pay phone canceling his upcoming matches: "Hey Frank". Perfect - a new Frank category - Payphone Frank.
Ricochet is a thriller starring Denzel Washington as the good guy and John Lithgow as of course, the bad guy.
It starts out with a double cross gone bad and as the Hit man tries to escape, a girl comes out of a port-a-potty and says: "Hey Frank" to her off screen Frank boyfriend and gets turned into a hostage by the bad guy. Can't recommend having a boyfriend named Frank in a movie. It never works out. You're at the festival one minute enjoying the perfume of the plastic rolling toilet and the next minute you're looking a cop strip down to his underwear and shooting the guy holding you and his blood spatters all over you. Frank isn't going to stand for that. He's gone with the wind. Poof!
It's got a lot of twisty twists and then has Ice Cube come to the rescue and there's a big finale on the Watts Towers. It's a good movie.
Alien Trespass is a spoof of the 1950's SciFi movies with a lot of GIANT EYE MONSTER ACTION and lots of driving in the desert. It's got a famous scientist, the sheriff, some kids who never listen to the authorities and all the elements that you need for a classic 50's SciFi bonanza.
My favorite part: After all the characters are named, the Police Chief needs a posse and he says: "You, you and you Frank". Frank isn't in the credits and it's a very rare Frank & Tom movie with the "boy" named Tommy. Even Merlin the Wonder Dog has a credit.
Lots of nice Theramin music, which is always good!
It's a lot of fun and I highly recommend it.
I think I might have seen this movie before or maybe just the big, wild, over the top shootout at the end.
But the thing is that this movie from 1993 has all the over the top crazy actors - Dennis Hopper, Christopher Walken, Tom Sizemore, Chris Penn, Samuel L. Jackson and Gary Oldman - Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette are the stars and it was written by Quentin Tarrantino and directed by Tony Scott, so you know what to expect in Spades!
Plus a bonus: Franco the mobster killer, which adds another Frank movie to the growing list.
If you like a lot of blasting, punching, kicking, etc. and you love big acting and big dialog along with your action, then you will love True Romance.
This was kind of a lame movie - a true story about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper? Whatever...
But it did have 2 redeeming qualities: Frank the Ford Engineer and Judge Franks. A double Frank movie is always worth watching, even if the story isn't that great.
Normally, I wouldn't review this movie, because you can't really make fun of it. It's a serious comedy with a bittersweet ending. It really is an excellent movie, especially if you like Alec Guinness.
The plot: George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. He decides to take the last holiday of the film's title and begins to find out that he was a more worthwhile and interesting person than he ever allowed himself to live.
Just one more thing to mention: He falls for a widow and her husband, who was killed in the War was named Frank. So I'm reviewing it because it has a Dead, Unseen Frank and that's good enough for me!
This is the best place to buy movie posters. They've got 27x40" One Sheet movie posters for lots of movies. I'd been trying to find a One Sheet poster for It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and I finally found it here.
Australia is an epic tale and romance set in WWI Australia. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are the stars and lovers.
I think it was trying to be another Gone With the Wind, but it's a good movie, not a great one. I really liked the amazing scenery and the acting, but it was a bit long.
It's essentially about a widow coming from England (see fish out of water plot) to find out what her dead husband stuck her with and meeting Drover (Hugh Jackman - see hate at first sight turning into love at the end plot) and then falling in love with the desolate ranch, people and Drover. There is also the evil rancher trying to monopolize the cattle biz (Bryan Brown - see every other western movie ever made plot) and then throw in the Japanese bombing Darwin at the beginning of WWII. With a bonus of an aboriginal wizard, named King George doing his magic here and there.
If there is a ranch, there are always chickens, even in Australia and for a super surprise bonus, after 2 hours and 40 minutes of characters named: Nullah, King George, Drover & Mrs. Boss, appears out of the blue and priest saving some kids and guess what? His name is Brother Frank! What else?
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a blast, where I mean lots of things get blasted to smithereenies! It's not that different than the first Transformer movie - Giant Killer Robots from Space battle the other nicer Robots, who turn into cars & trucks, etc.
They added more comedy into this movie and I could follow which Killer Robots were which better this time. In the first movie, I could hardly tell who was fighting who and who was good and who was evil. Not that great for a fast moving CGI action movie. You want to know if the good guys are winning.
At the beginning, there is a dog named Frankie, so, of course, that makes it a good movie already.
Every time a movie is set in a Middle Eastern village, there are always goats and this movie had plenty of goats. Just as the bad Killer robots were about to show up, I heard a Rooster! YAY, Chickens must follow! They had very dynamic and fun chickens and I think they were using the Chicken Mortar, which everyone knows is set at 37 Degrees and will shoot a chicken across the screen from left to right at the exact angle that is ideal for looking at art work, where you eye sweeps from bottom left to upper right of a painting, for example. The Chicken Mortar does the same thing.
P.S Giant Killer Robots just hate chickens!
No chickens and no Frank, but one of my all time favorite movies.
Vincent Price with Charles Bronson as his mute assistant terrorize the town first snatching bodies from the morgue and then killing people to turn them into wax figures.
It was originally in 3-D and watching it at the Dreamland Theater, it looked great and semi 3-D.
Knights Of The Round Table in Cinemascope! All the glory and splendor of King Arthur's Court!
I can just imagine the audiences back in 1953 going to see this and being amazed by the huge battle scenes with hundreds of horses all dressed up and galloping into the opposing army. Yowza! No special effects, just lots of horsies and men running around a golf course in Ireland and a couple of castles. The special effects they do have are very funny - lots of invisible ropes & strings - ropes to yank people of their horse and strings to move the arrows into an apple on the top of a knight's head.
The music is fantastic and every action and character had their own musical voice. I loved the poison music when Morgan La Fay (played by Anne Bancroft) got rid of the nosy Merlin.
I watched with my friend Lee-Anne and I wasn't sure she was going to like it, but with some commenting back and forth, we made it way fun. There was just one chicken, but about 4 of the Holy Grail bunch of Knights went off to chase it cuz they were big time hungry. I didn't expect that. There were also some medieval bongo drums.
There were some funny groups - they had a big meeting in a Stonehenge like rock circle and the Picts were kind of like cave men in furry outfits and then there were some guy with big Horn Helmets who liked to fight with hammers & axes. King Arthur is giving a big speech and his horse takes a giant loud whiz, which made us laugh!
I'm adding a new thing to look for in movies - the extremely rare quicksand, which I never figured would show up in a movie about King Arthur, but when Lancelot goes over the cliff into the quicksand, he calls for his 'orse, Eric. I think it's really Barrick, but if you make it Eric and also yell for Eric the 'orse, the movie is a lot funnier!
Ava Gardner as Guinevere and Robert Taylor at Lancelot steam up the place, well not really, this was 1953. There wasn't a kiss until 3/4 of the movie was over, but they did hold hands...
This is a fun movie and I highly recommend it. I just moved Monty Python & the Holy Grail to the top of my Netflix list. Should be a great contrast!
What can I say about one of the all time movie classics, The Wizard of Oz that hasn't already been said?
It's on BluRay DVD now, it's got a whole mess of chickens and they are running from a tornado and the same tornado kicks up a bunch of tumbleweeds. I doubt if there's been any review over the past 70 years that have mentioned those two important items...
It was a lot of fun to see it after watching it every year on TV for many, many years. The extras are excellent with some deleted scenes showing an amazing dance routine by Ray "Scarecrow" Bolger. No Frank characters, but a movie based on books by L. Frank Baum and the Wizard of Oz played by Frank Morgan, counts in my book.
See it again, it's a blast!
I love it when the first character name mentioned is a Frank! Scandal Sheet is a film noir movie from 1952 starring Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed & John Derek, about a newspaper's hunt for a murder suspect. The newspaper runs a Lonely Hearts Ball and an attendee dies later that night.
Crawford plays a newspaper editor that has turned an old respectable newspaper into a scandalous tabloid that is now making plenty of dough. He bursts into the boardroom just as an old biddy stockholder says: "I demand an explanation, Frank Madison!" Frank is the publisher and has hired Crawford as his gunslinger. Crawford asks the old biddy if she likes her dividend check and that shuts her up.
It's excellently acted and directed with lots of twists and turns and suspense. The audience knows who the murderer is from the beginning and the characters have to catch up at the very end. There is a bit of scenery chewing, but that makes it all good.
It's not out on DVD yet and I saw it on a special Turner Classic Movie night that had three movies directed by Phil Karlson that are rarely on TV - Scandal Sheet, The Phenix City Story & The Brothers Rico. Catch them if you can.
This is Frank movie number 25.
Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken & Natalie Wood (her last movie), is very entertaining. It's about recording a person's thoughts, feelings, emotions, senses, etc. and recording them and transmitting them to other people.
Louise Fletcher plays the main Scientist and as she's dying from a heart attack (it's really a big movie about the evils of chain smoking), she records her last 30 seconds of life...
There is also the Military-Industrial Complex sub-plot with a Mad Scientist who resembles an albino Dr. Frankenstein, who hijacks the project.
The three best parts for me are:
- There must be at least 50-75 tape drives in this movie, which is definitely an all time record - all kinds, little ones, gigantic ones, vacuum drives, video drives, etc.
- Lots of evil, taunting industrial robots that made me laugh. Scene: Security guard gets knocked over by a robot arm, runs out of the doors and then comes flying back in on a robot forklift full of cans of expanding foam - Gee Whiz, I wonder what's going to happen with that? Another forklift crashes into a door and spills about a billion Styrofoam peanuts! Guard slips under the expanding foam in the robot room. Excellent!
- Last, but not least.... A perfect Frank inclusion!!! Evil albino Mad Scientist picks up the phone and says: "Frank, call the rest of the group" No credits, no person, just a Frank on the phone. What could be better than that? I had to back up the DVD just to make sure.
The Man Who Sued God, starring Billy Connelly and Judy Davis, is a lot of fun. I laughed out loud many times. There is physical comedy as when Billy & Judy first meet and the story of an ex-lawyer, turned itinerant fisherman, who's boat gets hit by lightning and has problem with the big Insurance Company (sounds familiar, eh?) who say they don't pay on "Acts of God", has a lot of comedy rocks to mine.
I highly recommend this movie.
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself, is an HBO movie, so it was OK, but not great. It's based on a true story about the Mutual Film Company (home to Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith), paid Pancho Villa to film his real battles in the Mexican Revolution.
The best part for me, was when the opening credits are rolling, they pan over a letter addressed to Frank Thayer, the Mutual Film Company producer of the film. Then when Pancho meets Frank, Antonio Banderas as Pancho Villa says: "Pancho means Frank. Francisco Pancho Villa. We are two Franks."
Of course, no movie made in Mexico is without lots of chickens and there are plenty. So I enjoyed the movie and then I did a bunch of Wikipedia searches to find more about the Mexican Revolution, Pancho Villa, the Mutual Film Company, etc. Learned a bit of history...
I really enjoyed Ghost Town. Much more than I thought I would. I like Ricky Gervais in everything he does and Tea Leoni is very funny as she's working on Mummies.
Greg Kinnear is Tea's dead husband and after Ricky gets some surgery, where he dies for about 7 minutes, he starts seeing all the ghosts that are hanging around with unfinished business and he's annoyed.
Kinnear's character is of course named Frank - another dead Frank. I like it.
There is some weird romance and some comedy and overall, it's just a nice watchable fun movie with a Frank. So that's worth 4 stars, if I gave out stars. Also, all of a sudden, bongos drums appear in this movie, so that's worth another 1/2 star!
P.S. Finally, a stranger found this movie review blog and made a comment about having Franks in movies. His opinion was that Franks are usually doomed characters and there have been many dead Franks - unseen dead Frank in Brute Force (1946) starring Burt Lancaster and the reporter in Khartoum (1966) starring Charleton Heston who goes up the river OK, but comes back headless. Pobre Frank!
Eddie Coyle could use some new friends. This is a gritty crime drama with tons of excellent acting by excellent actors like Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle.
It's OK.
Taken is freakin' scary!!! It's a way too realistic story about Liam Neeson's daughter being kidnapped on the first day she lands in Paris for a vacation.
Lucky for her, Liam is a super spy. If you watch this movie, you'll never let any of your kids out of the country.
Yes Man is much better than I thought it was going to be. So I say Yes, Man, watch this movie if you want some good laughs.
No James Cameron to direct this T3 movie. It's OK, but the weakest of the three Terminator movies.
I wanted to see all 3 in a row, before going to see T4 in the theaters.
Terminator 2: Judgement Day is a worthy sequel.
Hasta la vista, Baby!
I'll be back! I'll be back and watch The Terminator over and over again as it's one of my all time favorites.
I set up my Netflix schedule, so I watched all three Terminator movies back to back to back.
What fun.
Valkyrie is the latest version of the story about the final attempt to kill Adolph Hitler during WWII.
Tom Cruise stars as Claus von Stauffenberg, the guy in charge of the plot within the German Army. They thought if they killed Hitler before the Allies invaded Europe, they could negotiate for peace.
They were too late. This being the 65th anniversary of D-Day, they attempted the bombing on June 20, 1944.
Even though I had seen this story many times before, they did a good job of keeping things moving and suspenseful and went into more details than other movies on the same subject.
There were complaints at the time that Cruise wasn't using a german accent, but I think it would have just been more distracting. I thought he did a good job and after awhile, I forgot it was him. Lots of good supporting cast - Terence Stamp, Eddie Izzard, Bill Nighy and Kenneth Brannagh.
I recommend this movie for those who like history.
This review only deserves small print. I'm giving it a Lame, Unwatchable and a Horrible tag, just in case you don't get it. DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES - A friend said was playing on a plane trip she took - if that happens to you, get a blindfold, just in case.
Why anybody thought they should remake a classic movie like The Day the Earth Stood Still and they cast Keanu Reeves as Klaatu is beyond apprehension.
It did have it's humorous parts, I must admit, although I don't think the filmmaker was going for laughs.
- Kidnap an 80 foot robot with an evil roving eye and put him inside a tube? Really?
- Have an observation booth looking right into the evil eye and then have the supercilious assistant SecDef (played by scenery chewing Kathy Bates) walk around 10 feet from him protected by glass? Really? I don't think it's a good idea.
- Ooops, weird metal scorpions are eating through the diamond drill and then a bigger OOPS, they are eating through the glass.
- Oh darn, everyone is trapped and kablooey!
- But wait! outside the mountian and the giant gates, is a huge army of tanks to defend us against the indesctructable giant robot! What a great idea. Heck of a job, Kathy Bates or should I say Batesie?
- Oops again - the robot turns into a swarm of locusts that eat and disolve everything in their path. Gee Whiz, tanks don't do much.
Then Klaatu doesn't ever deliver his message to more than Jennifer Connelly, who's very lovely, but hardly going to make a difference and get the Earth to stop messing things up. And her son is the most annoying character I've ever seen - Gort should have stomped him in the first act!
The whole thing is a mess and I wish I had never watching this crummy movie. Patoee!
Second best line in the movie: "Klaatu, let me be frank with you.". And who knew it was going to be a Fez movie? A double Fez movie.
The Day the Earth Stood Still is one of my all time favorite movies and when I was a little kid, I memorized the words that saved the world from Gort the robot, just in case I would have to save the world one day - Klaatu barada nikto! It's burned into my brain. I've never had to save the Earth, but just in case...
It's very much a cold war SciFi movie - all about the Earth messing up itself and the aliens coming to warn the Earth as long as they just stay at home blowing each other up, that's OK, but now that they might start spreading war to Outer Space, well then! Our good buddy Gort is going to hang around to make sure that doesn't happen.
It's also very biblical with Klaatu taking on the name Mr. Carpenter and then dieing and come back to life - ya know, kinda like Jesus? A morality play, eh what?
Gratutious Sam Jaffe as the fake Einstein with his excellent fuzzy hair. Super duper Theramin music and on the BluRay DVD, excellent extras about it and the making of the movie, etc.
If you haven't seen this movie, you don't know nuttin' about SciFi!
I laughed out loud in the first 10 minutes of watch Equilibrium. I don't think that was supposed to happen. I also predicted several lines in the movie, so I think that means that the screenplay wasn't that good either.
This is a 1984 meets The Matrix and it's unintentionally hilarious, especially Christian Bale and his little Nazi Youth son. It also throws in a bit of The Wizard of Oz. It's just a mishmash of previous movie plots and when you squish it all together, you might as well be having some nice oatmeal or smashed potatoes or some applesauce. You'd be enjoying it a lot more.
I've got to be more careful in choosing my Netflix DVD's. This is two lame movies in a row. Brutal!
Lost in La Mancha is a documentary about the failed attempt of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam to make a movie called Who Killed Don Quixote.
They have every problem and disaster you could think of including floods, clouds, dust storms, jet fighters, etc.
It's painful to watch and I wouldn't recommend it.
Cloak and Dagger is a pretty good WWII romantic thriller. It's a bit dated of course, but I enjoyed watching Gary Cooper do some karate chopping after getting recruited by the OSS. He's a nuclear scientist working on the Manhattan Project, but he gets a more important job.
It's directed by Fritz Lang, who's famous for directing the influential silent film, Metropolis and also M and the Blue Gardinia.
It's a pretty snappy movie and it's more cloak than dagger. It's got Lilli Palmer, who I remember in Operation Crossbow with George Peppard, as Gina. She's way undercover and is having to kiss fat Nazis to do her job. She helps Gary smuggle out an important Italian nuclear scientist to slow down the Nazis from getting the BOMB!
Star Trek is the best movie I've seen in the theater all year.
It's got action, massive special effects, has a good time with staying true to the original series and at the same time pokes fun at some of the sillier aspects.
All the actors play their parts to a T and I really like Eric Bana as the bad Romulan, Nero.
There are lots of places where I found myself holding my breath, so I know the excitement is there.
Go see it! Nuf said.
Run Fatboy Run is a surprisingly nice, fun romantic comedy starring Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton.
It's not a huge laugh out loud comedy like some of Simon Pegg's movies (Hot Fuzz), but I really enjoyed it.
Simon runs out out Thandie (what is he, stupid? - well yes) on the day of their wedding, when she's pregnant, then it jumps forward to 5 years later.
Thandie's new boyfriend, played by Hank Azaria, is a big shot and brags about his upcoming marathon run and Simon thinks that if he can also run the marathon, he might win back Thandie.
I really like all the supporting characters - the landlord and his sexy daughter, Simon's best friend and the people he bets all his money (which he doesn't have) on Simon finishing the race.
It has a happy ending. Yay!
The Wild One might be tame these days, but in 1954, it was definitely bad ass. Marlon Brando in his leather jacket and crooked hat as Johnny and Lee Marvin as the rival gang leader Chino, terrorizing a small town is still way cool.
Marlon's gang doesn't have any plans, they just ride around having kicks and he loves them and leaves them. He meets Kathie at the town's cafe, who happens to be the daughter of the town Sheriff. He kind of falls for her and she's looking for some more excitement than her small town life brings. Johnny is something completely different.
You have to watch this movie knowing it's in B&W and and old fashioned and you will enjoy it. Best line: "Hey Uncle Frank."
I had seen Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the movie theater, but it was much better watching it the 2nd time at the Dreamland Theater. I'm not sure why, but now I really like this movie.
I was able to see things like that the refrigerator that Indy gets blown up in the atomic blast is "Lead Lined".
The action is great and I even liked the aliens at the end of the movie now, whereas it was too confusing when I watched it the first time. Maybe it gets better with age.
Gratuitous LaBoof as Indy Jr. and Ray Winstone is excellent as the on/off partner. Cate Blanchett is the Nazi villain and Karen Allen makes a comeback as Marion, which was a good touch! Also it's got chickens!
What can I say about Punisher: War Zone? Well, I can say that the main character is Frank Castle, so as a Frank movie, that is always a good sign.
Unfortunately, having Frank in almost every scene and people saying "Frank" a lot doesn't overcome the lameness of this movie.
The Punisher is getting revenge on all the Mafia types in the city because his whole family got in the way of a bunch of bullets a few years earlier.
Needless to say, a whole lot of Punishing goes on and there is massive amounts of faces blown off and the big bad guy get squeezed into a glass recycling machine, which turns his face into a jigsaw puzzle, so he changes his name to... Wait for it!! Jigsaw. It is nice photographed, but it's not worth the time.
A Hobson's Choice means Take It or Leave It, so no choice at all.
The movie, Hobson's Choice, starring Charles Laughton is a really fun movie about lots of take it or leave it.
This delightful seldom aired little masterpiece of a movie is one of David Lean's best. It was just released on DVD.
Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda de Banzie, and all the supporting cast are on top form in this story (based on the play by Harold Brigham) about the goings-on in a Salford shoe shop.
Hobson, the hard drinking proprietor of the shop, is a "big fish in a little pond", but who gets his come-uppance by way of his eldest daughter.
Be sure to notice that Hobson's youngest daughter is played by a very young Prunella Scales, who later finds fame as Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers.
Below is a pretty dumb horror movie. The plot is lame, the acting is lame, the so-called surprises are lame and easy to figure out. Bruce Greenwood is lame as the "captain".
The submarine is about 4 times larger than any real sub, so that's lame also. There is a lame ghost too.
That's about all I need to say about this movie.
Breakheart Pass is an old fashioned 1970's western that has Charles Bronson riding to the rescue through the snow, blasting with dynamite and fighting on the top of a movie train.
It's legendary stuntman Yakima Canutt's final movie credit and if you look closely, you'll see Yakima stunt-doubling for Bronson in the train fight.
It's got gratuitous Richard Crenna as a corrupt Govenor and Ben Johnson at his crinkly cowboy best as a corrupt Sherrif and Charles Durning as the corrupt train conductor.
It's Bronson against the world! What else do you want? Well, how about excellent Jerry Goldsmith music and uber-gratuitous Joe Kapp and Archie Moore (ArchMO) as corrupt chefs?
The Godfather is the #3 movie on the all time AFI best movie list. Nuf said.
I just want to say that it looks great on BluRay and you'd think that a movie about Italians would have lots of Franks, but there is only one and it's a good one.
When the Godfather is laying in his bed at home after being shot, one of his grandsons says: "Get well soon, Grandpa, love your Grandson, Frank."
Also, there are 4 crying, screaming babies in the movie. Not sure why, but I noticed it. Go watch it again!
If you are looking for a batshit crazy movie, Donnie Darko is for you. Or maybe it's apeshit?
What is it all about? Is he dead? Is he dreaming? Is he in a parallel universe? Is it all of the above? Who knows and after the movie was over, I didn't care much at all.
Drew Barrymore is in this movie and she's listed as executive producer, so I think the writer/director must be a friend of hers because otherwise, this movie probably wouldn't have been made.
Donnie has a 6 foot imaginary friend or is it fiend that is a rabbit with a scary metal mask. Of course, his name is Frank and he takes off the mask and says his father is Frank and his father's father is also Frank and then he shows up as a non-rabbit character also named Frank, so it's all about crazy Frankland.
It's got both Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal before they were more well known and a gratuitous Patrick Swayze. Maybe you need to be on some kind of psychotropic drugs to get into this movie, but I wouldn't know about that. I can't recommend it.
What a fun movie this is. As Young As You Feel is a feel good movie.
Monty Wooley stars as a 65 year old printer who gets fired for being 65 and he takes charge to get his job back. He finds out who the President of the car company that owns his printing company and impersonates the President, dyes his beard, ends up making a speech to the Chamber of Commerce and changes the age rules at the company.
Then he sweeps the wife of the printing company off her feet, causes the car company president & executives a bunch of trouble and then when you throw in a gratuitous Marilyn Monroe, who dominates her few scenes, you've got a real old time fun movie.
For a last bonus, the weaselly HR guy is named Frank, so there you go.
Finally, I see a movie in the theater that is actually great. State of Play is a crackling thriller set in the world of politics and newspapers.
It stars Russell Crowe as a newspaper reporter, Ben Affleck as a Congressman, Rachel McAdams as a news blogger and Helen Mirren as the news Editor. It's based on a BBC Mini-Series of the same name and I moved up next on my Netflix list.
The action is excellent and the plot keeps twisting and turning, so you never really know what is coming next. There were so many changes in direction that I couldn't figure out the final twist.
The acting by everyone was spot on as I stopped seeing Crowe, Mirren & Affleck as themselves. I highly recommend this movie if you like a thriller, remember to take a breath.
Leatherheads is a really fun movie. It's a Comedy Romance about the start of professional football. It's zero historically accurate, but that doesn't matter. It's got George Clooney & Renee Zellweger in a modern screwball comedy set in the 1920's. It's odd that I watched two movies in a row, set in the 20's (Changeling was the other).
The movie moves along at a good pace and it was directed by Clooney, so he knew what he wanted. There is a lot of snappy dialogue between Clooney & Zellweger.
The football action was good with the final game in a massive field of mud. Number 1 great thing was the first named character was the coach, Coach Frank. Then later in the movie, there is a soldier Frank. So it's a double Frank movie.
I highly recommend this movie.
Changeling is very scary because it's a true story and it was only 1928, when a 9 year old kid goes missing and my Dad was 9 years old in 1928. It's hard to believe that the LAPD had that much unlimited power over regular people, but it's true.
It is an excellent drama and Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich and Jeffrey Donovan do a great job inhabiting their characters. Jolie was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar and Clint Eastwood was the director.
It tells the story from Christine Collins' (Jolie) point of view and her struggle to find her son after the LAPD give her a fake son as a replacement. The police send her to the nut house when she keeps causing problems for them. The actual case changed California law. Lucky for all of us, the police can no longer commit someone to a mental institute without a warrant.
Their is a chicken ranch and although they are mostly in pens, there is one flying chicken! Best line in the script: "I'll meet you at Musso & Frank.", which is billed as the oldest restaurant in Hollywood. It's a movie Frank.
The tag line for Born to Kill is: "The coldest killer a woman ever loved." I already know I'm going to like this movie and it's got Clair Trevor and she's DA Bomb!
They just don't make movies like this any more. Lawrence Tierney as Sam Wild, is a man for all women and he knows it and likes it, but he's not very smart and runs on violence, charm and emotion.
Claire Trevor's character is very similar to Sam Wild, so there is a dangerous undercurrent throughout the movie.
The best line in the movie: "I've never had someone I knew so slightly, be so frank." That counts as a Frank.
Not too much to say about Inglorious Basterds. If you like Quentin Tarantino movies, then you'll like this one.
Now, 2012 is what you want in a thriller!
A Man Apart is not a real lame movie, but it definitely mediocre.
I'm going to make this review short and sweet.
The Wrestler starring Mickey Rourke as an old broken down professional wrestler is a very interesting and very watchable movie.
Ricochet is a thriller starring Denzel Washington as the good guy and John Lithgow as of course, the bad guy.
Alien Trespass is a spoof of the 1950's SciFi movies with a lot of GIANT EYE MONSTER ACTION and lots of driving in the desert. It's got a famous scientist, the sheriff, some kids who never listen to the authorities and all the elements that you need for a classic 50's SciFi bonanza.
I think I might have seen this movie before or maybe just the big, wild, over the top shootout at the end. 
This was kind of a lame movie - a true story about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield wiper? Whatever...
Normally, I wouldn't review this movie, because you can't really make fun of it. It's a serious comedy with a bittersweet ending. It really is an excellent movie, especially if you like Alec Guinness.
Australia is an epic tale and romance set in WWI Australia. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman are the stars and lovers.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a blast, where I mean lots of things get blasted to smithereenies! It's not that different than the first Transformer movie - Giant Killer Robots from Space battle the other nicer Robots, who turn into cars & trucks, etc.
No chickens and no Frank, but one of my all time favorite movies. 
Knights Of The Round Table in Cinemascope! All the glory and splendor of King Arthur's Court!
What can I say about one of the all time movie classics, The Wizard of Oz that hasn't already been said?
I love it when the first character name mentioned is a Frank! Scandal Sheet is a film noir movie from 1952 starring Broderick Crawford, Donna Reed & John Derek, about a newspaper's hunt for a murder suspect. The newspaper runs a Lonely Hearts Ball and an attendee dies later that night.
Brainstorm, starring Christopher Walken & Natalie Wood (her last movie), is very entertaining. It's about recording a person's thoughts, feelings, emotions, senses, etc. and recording them and transmitting them to other people.
The Man Who Sued God, starring Billy Connelly and Judy Davis, is a lot of fun. I laughed out loud many times. There is physical comedy as when Billy & Judy first meet and the story of an ex-lawyer, turned itinerant fisherman, who's boat gets hit by lightning and has problem with the big Insurance Company (sounds familiar, eh?) who say they don't pay on "Acts of God", has a lot of comedy rocks to mine.
And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself, is an HBO movie, so it was OK, but not great. It's based on a true story about the Mutual Film Company (home to Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith), paid Pancho Villa to film his real battles in the Mexican Revolution.
I really enjoyed Ghost Town. Much more than I thought I would. I like Ricky Gervais in everything he does and Tea Leoni is very funny as she's working on Mummies.
Eddie Coyle could use some new friends. This is a gritty crime drama with tons of excellent acting by excellent actors like Robert Mitchum and Peter Boyle.
Taken is freakin' scary!!! It's a way too realistic story about Liam Neeson's daughter being kidnapped on the first day she lands in Paris for a vacation.
Yes Man is much better than I thought it was going to be. So I say Yes, Man, watch this movie if you want some good laughs.
No James Cameron to direct this T3 movie. It's OK, but the weakest of the three Terminator movies. 
Terminator 2: Judgement Day is a worthy sequel.
I'll be back! I'll be back and watch The Terminator over and over again as it's one of my all time favorites.
Valkyrie is the latest version of the story about the final attempt to kill Adolph Hitler during WWII.
This review only deserves small print. I'm giving it a Lame, Unwatchable and a Horrible tag, just in case you don't get it. DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES - A friend said was playing on a plane trip she took - if that happens to you, get a blindfold, just in case.
Second best line in the movie: "Klaatu, let me be frank with you.". And who knew it was going to be a Fez movie? A double Fez movie.
I laughed out loud in the first 10 minutes of watch Equilibrium. I don't think that was supposed to happen. I also predicted several lines in the movie, so I think that means that the screenplay wasn't that good either.
Lost in La Mancha is a documentary about the failed attempt of Monty Python's Terry Gilliam to make a movie called Who Killed Don Quixote.
Cloak and Dagger is a pretty good WWII romantic thriller. It's a bit dated of course, but I enjoyed watching Gary Cooper do some karate chopping after getting recruited by the OSS. He's a nuclear scientist working on the Manhattan Project, but he gets a more important job.
Star Trek is the best movie I've seen in the theater all year.
Run Fatboy Run is a surprisingly nice, fun romantic comedy starring Simon Pegg and Thandie Newton.
The Wild One might be tame these days, but in 1954, it was definitely bad ass. Marlon Brando in his leather jacket and crooked hat as Johnny and Lee Marvin as the rival gang leader Chino, terrorizing a small town is still way cool.
I had seen Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the movie theater, but it was much better watching it the 2nd time at the Dreamland Theater. I'm not sure why, but now I really like this movie.
What can I say about Punisher: War Zone? Well, I can say that the main character is Frank Castle, so as a Frank movie, that is always a good sign.
A Hobson's Choice means Take It or Leave It, so no choice at all.
Below is a pretty dumb horror movie. The plot is lame, the acting is lame, the so-called surprises are lame and easy to figure out. Bruce Greenwood is lame as the "captain". 
Breakheart Pass is an old fashioned 1970's western that has Charles Bronson riding to the rescue through the snow, blasting with dynamite and fighting on the top of a movie train.
The Godfather is the #3 movie on the all time AFI best movie list. Nuf said.
If you are looking for a batshit crazy movie, Donnie Darko is for you. Or maybe it's apeshit?
What a fun movie this is. As Young As You Feel is a feel good movie.
Finally, I see a movie in the theater that is actually great. State of Play is a crackling thriller set in the world of politics and newspapers. 
Leatherheads is a really fun movie. It's a Comedy Romance about the start of professional football. It's zero historically accurate, but that doesn't matter. It's got George Clooney & Renee Zellweger in a modern screwball comedy set in the 1920's. It's odd that I watched two movies in a row, set in the 20's (Changeling was the other).
Changeling is very scary because it's a true story and it was only 1928, when a 9 year old kid goes missing and my Dad was 9 years old in 1928. It's hard to believe that the LAPD had that much unlimited power over regular people, but it's true.
The tag line for Born to Kill is: "The coldest killer a woman ever loved." I already know I'm going to like this movie and it's got Clair Trevor and she's DA Bomb!
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